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Prayer to the Rain God

Oh, hard rain that drums on the tin eaves,
Smacks the blacktop with nonstop splattering,
Raps the window glass with each wind gust,
And spouts out the drain pipe an artesian spring;
Oh, anti-liturgical benediction;
Oh, rampant and wanton redemption;
Oh, most holy gully-washer and moisture-laden westerly offshore flow:

Make frothing brooks in the dry ditches
And roiling creek beds out of rock-strewn arroyos;
Swell the stream to a leaping, swirling, dusky rush,
And let it billow out a silt cloud into the big river.
Drench all desire and longing,
All pleasure and depression,
All scheming and regret,
Be they solitary leaf or uprooted tree,
And, in the wild ebullient overflow,
Sweep them out to sea.

John Williams
Chico, CA

Word of the Month!!

inure \in-YOOR\, transitive verb:
To make accustomed or used to something painful, difficult, or inconvenient; to harden; to habituate; as, "inured to drudgery and distress."

intransitive verb:
To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, "a gift of lands inures to the heirs."

They were a hard-driven, hardworking crowd inured to the hardest living, and they found their recreation in hard drinking and hard fighting.
--Allen Barra, Inventing Wyatt Earp

How does one become inured to unpredictable moments of helplessness?
--Stephen Kuusisto, Planet Of The Blind

At school, he repeatedly jabbed the nib of his pen into his hand, wanting to inure himself to agony.
--Peter Conrad, "Enter the philosopher, with an axe," The Observer, September 8, 2002

It is true that 35.3 percent of the tax benefits would inure to households with incomes of $250K or higher.
--William F. Buckley Jr., "The Rich Get Poorer," National Review, January 7, 2003

Inure derives from prefix in-, "in" + obsolete ure, "use, work," from Old French uevre, "work," from Latin opera, "trouble, pains, exertion," from opus, "work."